| Abstract | Paper -a:
This paper will uncover the wide range of medical occupations occupied by women from all social classes. It will assess their relative importance to people's health at different levels of society, and the respect in which they were held. Finally it will examine changes in their professional and legal status throughout the period, and to what extent these are likely to have affected the poor and the rich.
Paper -b:
This essay explores the availability and expense of medical care in 14th-century Provence. An analysis of witness testimony from the canonization inquest of Countess Delphine de Puimichel reveals witness attitudes toward medical doctors, or medici, practicing in their community and their perception of the expense of medical care. Although most witnesses in Delphine's inquest came from the aristocracy, there was significant disparity in their ability to pay for medical care. Some witnesses employed more than one doctor, while others turned to the miraculous healing abilities of Delphine because medical care became too expensive. This fiscal disparity reveals an important gap between rich and poor, even within the relatively homogeneous social group testifying in Delphine's inquest.
Paper -c:
Miracle collections record a wide social spectrum of pilgrims visiting saints' shrines, and seem to offer an unusually detailed picture of those inhabiting the economic extremes of medieval life. The hardships encountered by the poor and destitute are especially striking. But just how accurately did these narratives represent the social realities of medieval poverty and wealth, and were there more to these apparently factual accounts than at first meets the eye? This paper will examine these issues with reference to 12th-century sources, and reveal the significance of the relationship between the rich and the poor for hagiographers and their readers.
Paper -d:
In the Middle Ages the veneration is a complex phenomenon, that involves, in enough uniform manner, the folk (pour) and the noble (rich). Sometimes, in some places, this veneration assumed 'extreme' characteristics, that makes it similar to a pagan cult. In these cases we can define it 'idolatric veneration of a saint'.
The objectives of my research is to analyse the role of 'wealth' and 'poverty' in this type of venerations, throught the charachteristics of adoration, the miracles worked, the feature of simulacrum (often rich and precious) and, above all, the different religious behavior between the rich and the poor.
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